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Album Review: Deftones – Ohms

Tim SentzSeptember 28, 2020

Let’s get this out of the way first: Deftones are the only good thing to come out of the nu-metal age. While there are Limp Bizkit apologists still among us, i...

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Album Review: The Flaming Lips – American Head

Tim SentzSeptember 14, 2020

It’s kind of hard to believe that The Flaming Lips have now released music in five different decades. They’ve been together for 37 years, and in that amou...

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Album Review: Doves – The Universal Want

Tim SentzSeptember 11, 2020

It’s been over a decade since the last time Manchester’s Doves released a proper record. Missing the 2010s entirely seems to have rejuvenated them though, as t...

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Album Review: Total Revenge – Total Revenge

Tim SentzSeptember 4, 2020

You know you’re in for a good time when a record from a band named Total Revenge starts out with the line “Fucking on the lawn.” Ryan Pollie’s latest project, ...

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Album Review: Bully – SUGAREGG

Tim SentzAugust 26, 2020

Ever since her Nashville-based rock band Bully debuted, Alicia Bognanno has been compared to Nirvana – both favorably and unfavorably. The band rests comfortab...

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Album Review: Washed Out – Purple Noon

Tim SentzAugust 10, 2020

Ernest Greene practically invented chillwave, the late-2000s hazy synth genre that cultivated many one-off albums from dozens of artists. As Washed Out, Greene...

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Album Review: Ganser – Just Look At That Sky

Tim SentzAugust 6, 2020

Chicago’s noise-rock outfit Ganser took their name from the rare (and often dismissed) dissociative order discovered back in the late 1800s that describes an i...

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Album Review: illuminati hotties – Free I.H: This Is Not The One You’ve Been Waiting For

Tim SentzJuly 20, 2020

This is not an Illuminati Hotties album. This isn’t an Illuminati Hotties review, even. This is about Sarah Tudzin, the woman behind the band. This is the stor...

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Album Review: Silverbacks – Fad

Tim SentzJuly 15, 2020

U2 and My Bloody Valentine established Republic of Ireland as a boiling pot of post-punk bands, and recently there has been a rebirth of guitar bands from the ...

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Album Review: Dream Wife – So When You Gonna…

Tim SentzJuly 3, 2020

It seems as though Dream Wife exist merely to remind everyone that at one point Yeah Yeah Yeahs were the pinnacle for female-fronted rock bands. The London-bas...

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